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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  2. Flap Hero Code Review

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  3. “We were able to publish..not in top journals, but in billion doses of vaccines”

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  4. Ask HN: Book recommendations to learn functional programming

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  5. The rise and fall of the Oxford School of fantasy literature

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  6. First case of highly infectious COVID-19 variant detected in Colorado

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  7. Affordable dedicated servers, the best alternative to cloud

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  8. Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  9. The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  10. How Sweden Botched Its Coronavirus Response

    7 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  11. Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2020?

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  12. Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  13. Ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty Smuggled on to International Space Station

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  14. Don't Buy the Fucking Domain

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  15. The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  16. ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After 10 Years Selling Linux Hardware

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  17. The Gates Foundation's epic fight against Covid-19

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  18. A brief history of wi-fi privacy vulnerabilities

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  19. Rpitx: Radio transmission from a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  20. DevOps Guide to GitHub Universe

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  21. Ethical AI Framework

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  22. Ti atom exists in 2 places at once in crystal, to blame for unusual phenomenon

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  23. Dark Halo Leverages SolarWinds Compromise to Breach Organizations

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  24. Some Facebook employees don't believe its attacks on Apple are justified

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  25. The Citroen Ami is the EV city car 14 year olds can drive in France [video]

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  26. Mapping Concentrations of Device Vendors in IXPs

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  27. Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  28. Super cubes: inside the surprisingly big business of packaged ice

    7 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  29. I’m 33 Years Old. I Got Covid-19 Eight Months Ago. I’m Still Sick

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  30. A textbook for an introductory course in Linear Physical Systems Analysis

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  31. UV-emitting LED lights found to kill coronavirus

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Can we sell a tiny product on day 1 with almost no followers?

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  33. Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  34. If I use YouTube's DVR, will they delete it if they delete the video

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  35. Handy tips for staying secure on the go

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  36. The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  37. SolarWinds compromised by a second backdoor, from a different group of hackers

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  38. Thomas Wright's an Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  39. Website tracking number of people who have been vaccinated and new vaccine dev

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  40. How THP Slows Down Your Database Performance and What to Do about It

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  41. AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds, it has a big blast radius

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  42. Ask HN: Why do we now show username/password fields on separate screens?

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  43. Bluesky Identity

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  44. Traits of the Financially Independent

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  45. I quit my high-paying job as a software director

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  46. Game of Thrones video game tycoon dies in suspected poisoning

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  47. My friend's Tesla recorded a robbery yesterday

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  48. Zoom executive accused of disrupting calls at China’s behest

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  49. Facebook shopping scams have skyrocketed

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  50. An advent of code solution which takes seconds on Safari and minutes on Chrome

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  51. How to Build a Better Facebook

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  52. The Revolutionary Colossus

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  53. MicroStrategy buys BTC with abandon, Tether hits $20B, MassMutual jumps in game

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  54. U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  55. Anthony Quinn Warner, person of interest in Nashville bombing, a 'computer geek'

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  56. Does Tor provide more benefit or harm? New paper says it depends

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  57. DeepMind's big losses, and the questions around running an AI lab

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  58. Ask HN: Is there a HN but for management/leadership?

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  59. Why Is This Person Not [Shadow] Banned?

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  60. Why Doesn't Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore?

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  61. Solarwinds hacked by bypassing 2factor auth via duo akey (OutlookWebAccess servr

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  62. Study: Kids and teachers benefit from having more unstructured free play

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  63. Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island', dies of Covid-19 complications

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  64. (Hoax) 500k graphics cards found in an abandoned container

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  65. Pung: A fully untrusted private communication system

    7 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  66. Intel considers tapping TSMC to produce its 7 nm chips

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  67. Ask HN: Why are drawing tablets so expensive?

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  68. Show HN: Pretty Logger for Java – colourful logging for Java CLI

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  69. Automated discovery of machine learning optimizations

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  70. Pip search pretty much broken globally

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  71. The Japanese authorities understood Covid-19 better than most

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  72. Stay-at-home order issued for San Francisco Bay Area, ahead of state mandate

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  73. Vise, a company founded by two high school graduates, raises $45M

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  74. Show HN: Built a dockable menubar that can transform to a sidebar on drag n drop

    7 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  75. The Small Pleasures of Programming

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  76. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  77. State of Software Security Flaw Frequency by Language [pdf]

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  78. Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2020

  79. A Twitter thread showing examples of 10 types of tweets that get traction

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  80. Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  81. Coded Character Sets, History and Development (1980) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  82. Tech billionaires hack their taxes with a philanthropic loophole (2018)

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  83. Unfold Games Awards

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  84. Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020?

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  85. Tiered Subnet Calculator in Terraform

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  86. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologizes for Timnit Gebru controversy but not firing

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  87. San Francisco to ban tobacco smoking in apartments – but not cannabis

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  88. Over half a million Californians left the state last year

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  89. Justice Minister in Poland announces online freedom of speech bill

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  90. The Case for Elixir

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  91. The OODA Loop: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  92. Apple’s iPhone has an aggravating text notifications bug

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  93. How we built our equal-pay system

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  94. Cyberpunk 2077 characters can’t get their es to stop poking through their

    7 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  95. Facebook-backed Libra Association rebrands as Diem

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  96. HyperLogLog

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  97. Ask HN: How’s Your Experience with System76

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  98. An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  99. Bitstamp to halt trading of XRP for US customers

    6 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  100. Daniel Stenberg: How my Twitter hijacks happened

    6 points • comment • dec 16, 2020